JustFilms Collection
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Nas: Time Is Illmatic
Twenty years after the release of his groundbreaking debut album, Nas shares stories of his upbringing, influences — from his jazz musician father, Olu Dara, to New York’s burgeoning hip-hop scene and evolution from young street poet to visionary MC.
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Miners Shot Down
Miners Shot Down reconstructs South Africa’s 2012 Marikana miners’ strike through testimony and footage of a nonviolent demonstration that, at the hands of state police, turns into a bloody massacre, leaving 30 dead and many more injured.
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Marmato
The residents of Marmato, a 500-year-old Colombian mining town situated on a mountain containing $20 billion worth of gold, stand up to a Canadian company wanting to displace them to make way for an open-pit mining project.
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Kumu Hina
The struggle to maintain Pacific Islander culture and values within the Westernized society of modern Hawaii is told through the lens of a Native Hawaiian who is both a proud and confident Māhū, or transgender woman, and an honored and respected kumu, or teacher, cultural practitioner, and community leader.
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Hate Crimes in the Heartland
The stories of two crimes committed in Tulsa, Oklahoma, more than 90 years apart shed light on the 250,000 hate crimes committed in the United States each year.
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Food Chains
Food Chains offers a close-up look at the exploitation of US farmworkers, the complicity of government and corporations in perpetuating human rights abuses, and the role consumers can play in ending some of the most egregious violations.
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Finding Your Roots
With a team of genealogists, noted Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. helps people discover long-lost relatives hidden for generations within the branches of their family trees.
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E-Team
E-Team follows four fiercely intrepid Human Rights Watch investigators, offering a rare look at their lives at home and in the field as they investigate abuses and gather evidence about, document, and draw world attention to the violations.
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Disruption
Aiming to expand financial inclusion across South America, a band of activist-economists works to help impoverished women become economic and political engines of their communities, and drive change from the bottom up.
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Difret
Challenging an age-old Ethiopian tradition, a zealous lawyer defends a young girl charged with murder for shooting a man who’d tried to abduct her into marriage. Difret captures the tensions of a country’s transition from tribal to civil rule of law.
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Concerning Violence
Lauryn Hill narrates an exploration of pivotal moments in the struggles for liberation by African countries, as Frantz Fanon’s landmark book The Wretched of the Earth offers insights.
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CITIZENFOUR
When filmmaker Laura Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald flew to Hong Kong to meet Edward Snowden for the first time, Poitras brought her camera with her. The result is a real-life espionage story that unfolds minute by minute before our eyes.